Rik's Reads

CategoryBooks
* • I Am The Grand Canyon
Classics • Farenheit 451
• Beowolf
• Catcher in the Rye
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Grapes of Wrath
• Neuromancer
• Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe
• To Kill a Mockingbird
Geeky • Death March (Surviving Doomed Projects)
• Executable UML: A Foundation for Model Driven Architecture
• Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions
• Just XML
• Using Perl 5 for Web Programming
General • The Bastard Brigade
• Tails of the City
Humor • The Joy of Work
• Owt, Nowt and Summat A Toast to All Tykes
Must Read • The Code Book
• Grapes of Wrath
• I Am The Grand Canyon
• The Silicon Boys and their valley of dreams
• To Kill a Mockingbird
Must Read • A Confederacy of Dunces
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Relaxing • Cannery Row
• Into Thin Air
Sci-Fi • Artemis
• The Martian
• Ready Player One
Sci-Fi • Farenheit 451
• Neuromancer
Techie • Alice in Quantumland
• The Code Book
• How to Invent Everything
• This Book Isn't Safe
Techie • Backroom Boys; the secret return of the british boffin
tbd • The Crystal Cave
• The Santa Cruz Trailbook
  The Silicon Boys and their valley of dreams    
The Silicon Boys and their valley of dreams
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It might sound a bit geeky, but it's an incredibly interesting book, which has very little to do with technology.

This book talks mainly about how the creators of the digital age did it. Mainly by being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of someone elses idea.

Most interesting thing I learnt from the book is the amount of money that is floating around in Silicon Valley ... but not much of which seems to drift into my bank account.




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